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Scientific Member

Lawrence Panasci MD
Professor, Medicine & Oncology Gertrude & Stanley Vineberg Clinician Scientist Chair, Breast Cancer Committee,

Department of Oncology McGill University & Associate Director,

 Department of Oncology Jewish General Hospital


MAILING ADDRESS
Jewish General Hospital
Oncology Centre, E-175
3755 Cote Ste Catherine
Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2


 


ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Degree

Year

Discipline/Field Institution and Country

B.Sc.

1968

Mathematics Georgetown University (Magna Cum Laude)

MD

1972

Medicine Georgetown University Medical School

Internship

1972-1973 

Medicine Case Western Reserve University Medical School, Affiliated Program, Cleveland Ohio

Residency

1973-1974

Medicine Case Western Reserve University Medical School, Affiliated Program, Cleveland Ohio

Residency

1974-1975

Medicine Georgetown Division, D.C. General Hospital, Washington D.C.

Research Fellow

1975-1977

Oncology Division of Medical Oncology, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington D.C.

Clinical Fellow

1976-1977

American Cancer Society

Visiting Fellow

1977

Instituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan Italy

Attending Physician

1978-1980

Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology Syracuse University

 


AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Position Held

Institution/Organization

Department/Faculty

Period

Assistant Professor

Upstate Medical Center and Veterans Administration Medical Center, Syracuse NY

Medicine

1978

Assistant Professor

McGill University, Jewish General Hospital

Medicine

1980-1984

Associate Professor

McGill University

Medicine

1985-1991

Associate Director

Oncology Department, Jewish General Hospital

Oncology

1989-present

Associate Professor

Geographic Full Time-University Joint

Oncology

1991-1998

Professor

McGill University

Medicine and Oncology

1998-present

 


RESEARCH SUPPORT

Principal Applicant

Title of Project

Funding Source and Program

Years of Tenure

L. Panasci

Mechanism of increased cytotoxicity of SarCNU in gliomas

NIH US

1994-1997

L. Panasci

Nitrogen Mustard Drug

Resistance in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Implications for therapy

Cancer Research Society

1995-1999

L. Panasci

Determination of nucleotide excision gene protein levels in the NCI tumor cell line panel

United States National Cancer Institute Contract

1997

L. Panasci

Phase I trial of SarCNU

NIH US

1998-2000

L. Panasci

Modulation of DNA-PK activity to alter chlorambucil drug resistance in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

1998-2001

L. Panasci

Assessment of P-40 expression levels in tissue samples and correlation with resistance to chemotherapy

Aurelium Biopharma Contract

2000-2001